Title: ‘Living’ in Nage: An exploration of the concept of ‘life’ in an eastern Indonesian society Speaker: Prof. Gregory Forth (Visiting Professor, ASAFAS / Professor, University of Alberta, Canada) Date: April 17th (Fri.), 2015, 16:00 - 18:15 Place: AA401, Research Building No.2, Kyoto University (Main Campus) http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/yoshida/main.html   Abstract: Recent writing in anthropology, and especially prominent attempts to revive the nineteenth century notion of ‘animism’, tends to depict small-scale, non-western societies as drawing distinctions between ‘living’ and ‘non-living’ things, as well as between humans and non-human animals, in ways very different from members of modern or ‘western’ societies. More specifically, ethno-linguistic groups falling in the first category have been described [ Read More ]